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What Is Learning Agility? Why It’s Critical for Future-Ready Teams

Most training conversations start in the wrong place. They start with content — what do people need to know? What skills need updating? What’s the gap between current state and desired state? These are reasonable questions. They are also, increasingly, the wrong ones. The more useful question — the one that actually determines whether any training investment lands — is this: how well does this team learn? Not what have they learned. How well do they learn, when conditions change, when the map no longer matches the territory, when the thing they knew for certain last year turns out to

March 3, 2026 7:54 am No Comments

3 Foundational Principles for Using LLMs Everyone Can Benefit From

Most people who are disappointed with AI tools are not using the wrong ones. They are using the right ones wrong. That is a meaningful distinction, because the fix is different. If it were a tool problem, the answer would be: switch tools, find a better one, wait for the technology to improve. If it is an interaction problem, the answer is closer at hand than that. These three principles are not about prompt engineering in the technical sense. They go deeper, to the shape of how you engage. Change that shape, and the tools you probably already have start

March 2, 2026 10:07 am No Comments

The Pipeline Test

Quick working-out-loud post. I’ve been setting up a publishing workflow that runs through Claude Cowork. The idea is simple: originate a post inside the Cowork session, have Claude write it directly into my Obsidian vault, and then publish from there using the OMG.lol Publisher plugin. This post is the first test of that pipeline. We confirmed the folder structure — narrative alchemy/Blog Drafts/Drafts/ — and Claude dropped this file straight into it. No copy-paste. No intermediate step. If you’re reading this on the weblog, it worked. The broader point is this: the writing environment, the vault, and the publishing layer

March 1, 2026 8:45 pm No Comments

Learning Design

How to Design Learning Experiences That Actually Stick

It’s Monday morning, and you’re sitting in a high-production corporate training session. The slides are polished, the speaker is charismatic, and the coffee is expensive. You nod along, feeling like you’re absorbing every word. But by Thursday, if someone asked you to explain the three core pillars of the strategy presented, you’d likely offer a blank stare. This is the “Forgetting Curve” in action, and in our hyper-distracted 2026 landscape, it has become a cliff. For decades, we approached learning as a delivery problem: If we provide the right content, they will learn. But in an era of infinite information

January 20, 2026 2:07 pm No Comments

Leadership

The Adaptive Leader: How Mastering ‘Colour Energy’ Eliminates the Miscommunication Tax

Why the “Golden Rule” is a Leadership Trap For decades, we’ve been told to follow the Golden Rule: “Treat others as you would like to be treated.” In our personal lives, this is a beautiful sentiment. But in the high-stakes environment of modern leadership, the Golden Rule is actually a trap. It assumes that everyone on your team shares your motivations, your communication style, and your pace. The reality is, they don’t! If you are a high-energy, results-driven leader who loves directness, you likely want to be managed with brevity and “the bottom line.” But if you apply that same style to

January 12, 2026 12:21 pm No Comments

When Smart Becomes Cheap: The New Scarcity

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang recently dropped what some are calling a bomb on the modern education system. His claim? Raw intelligence is about to become worthless. For decades, we’ve operated on a specific formula: High IQ + specialised knowledge + perfect test scores = secure future. We hired the smartest people in the room. We obsessed over credentials. We treated intelligence as the gold standard, the scarce resource that separated winners from everyone else. But Huang is telling us that era is over. AI can now score 100% on tests faster than you can pick up a pencil. It can write

January 12, 2026 10:41 am No Comments

Blog

The Dance Between ‘I’ and ‘Me’

The dance between I and Me lives right at the heart of selfhood, it’s the movement between the actor and the mask, the subject and the object, and the experiencer and the experienced. William James started the split: I as the knower, the pure subject of consciousness; Me as the known, the self that can be observed—my body, my history, my reputation, my roles. George Herbert Mead later turned this into a dance floor: I is spontaneous, unpredictable, creative response; Me is the social mirror, the internalised chorus of others telling us who we are supposed to be. So what’s the space between them? It’s not a gap you could drop a

September 15, 2025 4:46 pm No Comments

Worldland: categories and images

I'm feeling my way around wordland as a text editor for wordpress. I like the idea. Straight images work. It doesn't look like you can do featured images or tags yet. But i guess this is all in keeping with the minimalist text editor which is designed for writers specifically. I can see me using it as part of my knowledge garden workflow.

March 9, 2025 12:12 pm No Comments

trying out wordland

So Dave has created something, which I hope will be useful. I've been searching for an app that will allow me to write in short-form with the possibiliies to expand into long form as my ideas or insight develops. And becasue I am a WordPress user, I want something that works seamlessly with WordPress. So let's see how this works…

March 9, 2025 9:11 am No Comments

Blog

Reaching Our Potential

It’s all too common to not fully realise our potential, failing to achieve goals that are well within our talents and abilities. However, understanding the reasons behind this and implementing effective strategies can help us come closer to achieving our full potential. A significant obstacle is often a lack of self-awareness regarding our skills, values, and passions. These are crucial for identifying the most suitable goals and directions to utilise our potential. Without a clear direction, optimising effort and resources becomes challenging. Enhancing self-awareness through methods such as journaling, engaging in discussions with mentors, or taking personal development assessments can

January 9, 2024 2:48 pm No Comments

Personal Development

Conversations

Our conversations shape our lives and relationships profoundly, often without us realising it. Each interaction presents an opportunity to connect more deeply, understand each other better, and move forward together. It’s easy to get distracted—checking emails and texts, getting lost in your own thoughts. When you do, you’re not fully present with the person in front of you. What would it look like: ✅ if you brought your whole self to every conversation?✅ if you listened intently without interruption or judgement?✅ if you spoke from the heart instead of reacting out of stress or frustration?✅ if you let go of

January 9, 2024 6:03 am No Comments

Podcast

What if your life was infinitely on repeat, would you be happy to experience it over and over again, the good and the bad?

Picture the universe and all its events repeating themselves forever in an endless loop; every thought, every emotion has occurred, is occurring, and will occur infinitely. This is what Nietzsche called Eternal Recurrence. He used this idea to test the mettle of human values. If all of your actions, thoughts, and emotions were to recur infinitely, would you be content to relive your life exactly as it is – the good and the bad?

August 28, 2023 3:53 pm No Comments

Podcast

WEX 22: Navigating Isolation and Building Mental Wealth with Mike Pagan

Show Notes: Episode #22: Navigating Isolation and Building Mental Wealth with Mike Pagan In this episode, host Clay Lowe sits down with executive coach, motivational speaker, and endurance athlete Mike Pagan. Mike shares his insights on productivity, mental wealth, and sports, drawing on his 20 years of coaching experience. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out Mike’s book, Mental Wealth, and visit our website for more insightful conversations and resources on navigating the challenges of isolation and building mental wealth. Note: This is a summary of the content discussed in the podcast episode. [For the full experience and details, please

August 22, 2023 5:07 pm No Comments

Blog

a transformative affair

I started blogging on February 8, 2004 at 2:32 PM. I’ve been hooked on it ever since. But then monetisation happened, social media happened, and the blogosphere changed forever. And that’s fine. What’s not fine is that people continue to ignore the fact that they don’t own their social media accounts. And if you’ve been paying attention to what has been happening over at Twitter / X since the new boss took over, you should be concerned. I know I preach a lot about why you should start your own blog or restart your old one, and it’s because of

August 20, 2023 11:04 pm No Comments

Blog

embrace your questions

Self-questioning. It’s a simple phrase, yet profoundly powerful. I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of looking inward through self-questioning. It’s too easy to accept your thoughts and feelings at face value instead of digging deeper to see what you might find beyond the surface conversations we have with ourselves. Not going deeper is a dangerous path. How can you ever know your true beliefs and motivations if you don’t? Embrace your questions; don’t avoid them. Ask yourself: Why did I get so angry in that moment? Why did I go along with something I knew was wrong? Questioning

August 19, 2023 8:35 pm No Comments